Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Neuchâtel EMS financing law was compatible with LAMal, the Constitution, and the division between listing/planification and subsidies.
Decisão extraída
The law may distinguish between EMS with only police authorization, EMS on the LAMal list, and EMS granted public-utility status through a service contract; LAMal does not require the canton to subsidize all listed EMS.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 39 LAMal governs admission to compulsory insurance only. Outside the residual care-cost coverage under Art. 25a(5) LAMal, the canton retains discretion to grant other subsidies under its own criteria, including a service-contract model.